Discover the rich ballads of American songwriters The Mynabirds!

Pooling piano notes enriched with sustained echoes quickly have us enraptured by The Mynabirds’ latest single, ‘Ramona, Patron Saint of Silence’. An atmospheric song blending the outpour of keys with gentle string music, Laura Burhenn offers kindness and honesty to those who feel they have lost their way.

This intimate, heart-felt ballad presents itself as a musical sanctuary from the very first line that asks “Did you ever lose your voice?”. With soulful and warm vocals contained in a steady and stripped back drum beat, Burhenn muses on personal and empathetic concerns about selfhood; the impact of it and the act of losing it.

Titling herself as an activist alongside a singer-songwriter, Burhenn herself dedicates this song to the voices of the voiceless, poignantly advocating “for a world in which the voices who have been silenced…lift together in a great fiery choir to burn down broken systems”.